Management practices in project-based design: BIM to FM - where management practices in projects and operations meet

Friday 27 May 2011

BIM to FM - where management practices in projects and operations meet

There is interest in the links between Building (or Infrastructure) Information Modelling (BIM) in project delivery and the client's management of the completed buildings and infrastructure. We have started to explore this in a research context, and the preliminary findings of recent work is now online as an ICE briefing sheet.

Selected Publications

Whyte, J. (2011) Managing digital coordination of design: emerging hybrid practices in an institutionalized project setting, Engineering Project Organization Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 159-211

Whyte, J. and Sexton, M. (2011) Motivations for innovation in the built environment: new directions for research, Building Research and Information, Vol. 39, Issue 5, pp. 473-482.

Whyte, J. and Lobo, S. (2010) Coordination and control in project-based work: digital objects and infrastructures for delivery, Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 28, Issue 6, 557-567.

Whyte, J. (2010) Taking time to understand: articulating relationships between technologies and organizations, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 29, pp. 217-236.

Harty, C. and Whyte, J. (2010) Emerging hybrid practices in construction design work: the role of mixed media, ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Vol. 136, No. 4, pp. 468-476.

Ewenstein, B. and Whyte, J. (2009) Knowledge practices in design: The role of visual representations as 'epistemic objects, Organization Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 7-30.

Whyte, J., Ewenstein, B. Hales, M. and Tidd, J. (2008) Visualizing knowledge in project-based work, Long Range Planning, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp.74-92.

Ewenstein, B. and Whyte, J. (2007) Beyond words: aesthetic knowledge and knowing in design, Organization Studies, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 689-708.